Culture Negative Prosthetic Joint Infection–A Description of Current Treatment and Outcomes
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Culture-negative prosthetic joint infection.
BACKGROUND Culture-negative (CN) prosthetic joint infection (PJI) has not been well studied. We performed a retrospective cohort study to define the demographic characteristics and determine the outcome of patients with CN PJI. METHODS All cases of CN total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty infections (using a strict case definition) treated at our institution from January 1990 thr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology: Open Access
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2327-5073
DOI: 10.4172/2327-5073.1000106